BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! — Event Card Tracker
Which card should you get from the Michelle Sticker Exchange?
Hello! This article is part one of my guide to use my Bandori Event Card Tracker and Character Database spreadsheet, as well as my experiences from making and analyzing it. Part two goes into the character information analysis, and can be found here: BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! — Character Information Database and Tableau Analysis
Before you continue, do open the spreadsheet and refer to it while reading this article as the embedded CSV tables in this article do not show the cell colors which add more functionality to the spreadsheet.
For readers who don’t play BanG Dream (also known as Bandori):
- Bandori is a rhythm game where you tap notes to the beat of Japanese songs to score points. If you do well enough, you get a shiny pink Full Combo star for your efforts. For a more technical look at choosing the best songs for scoring, check another one of my articles out: BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! Song Meta Exploratory Analysis using Tableau
- As of October 2020, the game consists of 25 characters in 5 bands (35 in 7 bands if you’re playing the Japanese version of the game which is a year ahead in content). Cards in the game are characterized by rarity, character and attribute, making for a lot of combinations which affect your band power and score. In general you’ll want a high-rarity team in the same band with the same attributes if you prioritize raw band power.
- The game regularly runs events which come with prizes such as resources for upgrading items and new cards (sometimes really pretty-looking cards) for your collection. Cards from previous events can be found in the Michelle Sticker Exchange and obtained using Michelle stickers.
Let’s begin!
Event Card Tracker
I’ve been playing with Bandori data analysis for a while and had the idea to try to see into the future. That’s perhaps the strongest benefit of playing on the Worldwide server: You get to know a year’s worth of content in advance, which gives you plenty of time to plan! With that in mind, I opened up the Bandori event timeline (thank goodness for its filters) and got to work… and this happened.
Each cell shows the number of events each particular character/attribute combination appears in. If you view the spreadsheet using the Google Sheets link at the beginning of the article instead of the embedded tables in this article, you’ll see that the cells are colored based on whether the Michelle Sticker Exchange has cards of that particular character/attribute combination as of November 2020, which might help players who want cards of a particular combination in order to make their event band lineups stronger. Take note of the cells which show that a 3-star scorer is available in the exchange, as that is the strongest type of card available in the Exchange. The full spreadsheet also includes a table which shows what the exchange will look like in a year time, advising players on whether they should wait for a better card to show up.
Summing up everything, I got about 36 events (Approximately 175 appearances divided by 5 characters per event).
I also summed up the events based on attribute and band.
We can see that the next year of Bandori for the English server will have a lot of Happy events and not as many Cool events. The numbers are pretty evenly distributed though, which isn’t too surprising since successive events tend to cycle through the attributes.
By the looks of it, I’ll be seeing a lot of Pastel✽Palettes in the next year. Combining the data from both tables together, Chisato Shirasagi (Pastel✽Palettes), Himari Uehara (Afterglow) and Hina Hikawa (Pastel✽Palettes) are going to be frequently featured event characters. Band-wise, I’m really surprised that Roselia appears the least out of the original 5 bands, especially because Roselia is one of the most popular bands in the Bandori franchise. Morfonica and RAISE A SUILEN will be making their debut sometime around March and June next year, which explains their low event count.
I confess that my motivation for making this tracker was really to see if it was worth it to exchange my Michelle stickers for this Maya. I had enough stickers, liked Maya’s character and needed more Maya cards to strengthen my lineup, but I wanted to make sure that I would actually use this cards for events so my hard-earned Michelle stickers wouldn’t be wasted. From the table, I was convinced that my purchase would be worth it as Happy Maya cards would be needed for 4 events in the coming year, which was the highest out of all 140 character/attribute combinations!
Limitations of this event card tracker:
- I didn’t take event type into account for much of my analysis. For some events, even if I have all the event characters with the right attributes, if the team is weak I would prefer to use my strongest scoring team since that would net more points overall despite losing the event bonus! I made a table to count the number of events for each type, and it seems like VS live events which prioritize high band power will appear the most often.
- A low number doesn’t necessarily mean that the card is useless. Going back to the first point, if my event team is weak I might need to sub in 4-star cards with the same event attribute to boost the overall band power. Hence that 4-star Powerful Arisa card might still come in handy…
If you have feedback for the event tracker, do let me know here! That’s it for part one, check out part two here. I hope the tracker is useful for you if you’re a Bandori player!
